History Main / ArtsyBeret

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* ''Advertising/CharlieTheTuna'': Part of Charlie’s outfit is a red beret to reference his Beatnik design, while also used as a shorthand for his "good taste".

* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 18, Tibbie practices her painting and is shown wearing a pink-colored beret with a plaid pattern on it a couple of times as she is painting pictures.

* ''Manga/ShugoChara'': Miki, the Guardian Spirit representing Amu's artistic side, wears a blue beret, which carries over into Amu's transformation using Miki's power, Amulet Spade.
* One of ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'''s gadgets is a special beret that makes the wearer able to draw very realistic paintings.
* In one episode of ''Anime/SailorMoon'', Chibi-Usa wears a beret, fake glasses and a mustache during art class because it makes her feel more like an artist. Her teacher thinks it just makes her look silly and tells her to take them off.

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': In a show that generally follows LimitedWardrobe, Jill Pill is an avant-garde New York Theater director who wears a red beret.

** Episode "Little Girl in the Big Ten" has Lisa posing as a college student to hang with her fellow gymnasts. Given that she is 10 years younger than the average student, she takes to wearing a black beret with hopes of fitting in with the intellectuals.
** When Homer & pals become a barbershop quartet ''a la'' the Beatles, Barney gets a bizarre Japanese conceptual artist as a girlfriend, who wears black and a beret. So did Barney when he was with her.

A common execution of this is to load the beret-wearer with artist stereotypes. These characters will be StarvingArtist{{s}} [[TrueArtIsAngsty driven by consuming pain]], often to the [[MadArtist outskirts of sanity]]. Such characters may be [[ItsPopularNowItSucks snobby and pretentious]], or they may be [[CloudCuckoolander very eccentric]]. They'll definitely be on a quest to find TrueArt, and may claim that TrueArtIsIncomprehensible. Sometimes, a character may suddenly adopt these mannerisms upon donning a beret. The beret is also iconically associated with France, [[note]]and the Basque country, but don't expect to see that crop up in fiction [[/note]] so depictions of artists can overlap with [[FrenchJerk French stereotypes]] including GratuitousFrench, stemming from [[GayParee Paris']] reputation as an arts haven.

** When Homer & pals become a barbershop quartet ''a la'' the Beatles, Barney gets a [[YokoOhNo bizarre Japanese conceptual artist]] as a girlfriend, who wears black and a beret. So did Barney when he was with her.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', the snooty PrimaDonnaDirector Flannigan always wears a red beret.

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-->"Olen muistakin mainostaa - onhan baskeri kallellaan?" ("I've been working on some material, remember to mention it everywhere - is my basker tilted enough?")

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* In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "portrait", Strong Bad wears a beret in a traditional oil painting done by a "Deutsch Master", a ShoutOut to a famous portrait of Rembrandt.

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* The children's drawing and animation software Kid Pix had an anthropomorphic square holding a paintbrush and wearing a beret as the desktop icon.
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%%* One of his '''[whose?]''' gadgets in ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' is a special beret that makes the wearer able to draw very realistic paintings.
* In one episode of Anime/SailorMoon, Chibi-Usa wears a beret, fake glasses and a mustache during art class because it makes her feel more like an artist. Her teacher thinks it just makes her look silly and tells her to take them off.

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This trope is nowadays nearly [[DeadHorseTrope never played seriously.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''': Doug's sister Judy is almost never seen without her {{Beatnik}}-inspired beret and circular shades. Her defining character trait is that she's a snobby artist who goes to a private highschool dedicated entirely to the arts and theater, so the creators made sure she looked as stereotypically "artsy" as possible.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: Dutch painter and TropeMaker Creator/RembrandtVanRijn painted a number of [[https://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt/self-portrait-with-gorget-and-beret self-portraits wearing a beret]]. The simple hat was popular among peasants and outdoorsmen long before Rembrandt, but incorporating it into his portraits was a first on his part.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Passpartout}}'': The StarvingArtist Simulator dons a beret and a striped shirt as he starts off his career in the streets of Paris.

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->"I've been working on some material, remember to mention it everywhere - is my basker[[note]]beret[[/note]] tilted enough?"
--> --"Taiteilia", Music/{{PMMP}}

* Creator/PabloPicasso often wore a rakish black beret, while his painting Femme au Beret et a la Robe Quadrillee (1937) is a Cubist portrait of his lover Marie-Therese Walter wearing a bright red beret.

* OlderThanTheyThink: the Dutch painter Rembrandt made a portrait of [[https://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt/self-portrait-with-gorget-and-beret himself wearing a beret]], a possible TropeMaker or TropeCodifier.

In fiction, any "serious" artists will be depicted wearing beret, also known as a basker, to the point that the two are almost synonymous. The beret is usually black, and is often paired with skinny pants, a black turtleneck, a horizontally-striped shirt, or a paint-stained smock or other paint-covered clothing item. This is most ubiquitous with painters and other fine artists, but is also commonly worn by the PrimaDonnaDirector or other avant-garde creative types.

* David, the protagonist of ''Film/LuckyPartners'', is a Bohemian artist who lives in Greenwich Villiage in New York and wears a smock and beret.

* Creator/DanielPinkwater's ''Literature/TheArtsySmartsyClub'' features a group of kids learning to paint and draw. When they go to the art supply store for the first time, the shopkeeper gives them all "genuine artists' berets" to go with their new art supplies, and tells them the hats are just like what Vincent Van Gough wore. They proceed to wear the berets whenever they are engaged in art-related activities.

* In the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk Paints His Materpiece", Monk dons a beret once he becomes convinced he's an artistic genius. He [[SuperOCD refuses to wear it tilted]], however.

* Referred to in the song ''Taiteilia'' by Finish band ''PMMP'' that parodies self-importance and hypocrisy of self-proclaimed artists:

* In ''VideoGame/SuperScribblenauts'', [[HelloInsertNameHere the character simply titled 'Artist']] constantly wears a red beret and scarf over black clothes. None of the other labelled characters ever change their clothes, and they're all dressed to embody the steretypes they portray.

* ''WesternAnimation/HereComesPeterCottontail'' features a gag involving the chocolate rabbit sculptors (chipping at a block of chocolate with a chisel like it was marble) Milkchocolateangelo and Leonardo de Bittersweet. The former wears a beret and the latter wears an artists's smock.

* The TV series of ''Literature/TrainMain'' has a beret-wearing artist (apparently on a world tour) as one of the people talking to "Densha" on the message board.

* The TV series of ''Franchise/DenshaOtoko'' has a beret-wearing artist (apparently on a world tour) as one of the people talking to "Densha" on the message board.

In fiction, any "serious" artists will be depicted wearing beret, also known as a basker, to the point that the two are almost synonymous. The beret is usually black, and is often paired with skinny pants, a black turtleneck, a horizontally-striped shirt, or a paint-stained smock. This is most ubiquitous with painters and other fine artists, but is also commonly worn by the PrimaDonnaDirector or other avant-garde creative types.

A common execution of this is to load the beret-wearer with artist stereotypes. These characters will be StarvingArtist{{s}} [[TrueArtIsAngsty driven by consuming pain]], often to the [[MadArtist outskirts of sanity]]. Such characters may be [[ItsPopularNowItSucks snobby and pretentious]], or they may be [[CloudCuckoolander very eccentric]]. They'll definitely be on a quest to find TrueArt, and may claim that TrueArtIsIncomprehensible. Sometimes, a character may suddenly adopt these mannerisms upon donning a beret. The beret is also iconically associated with France, [[note]]and the Basque country, but don't expect to see that crop up in fiction [[/note]] so depictions of artists can overlap with [[FrenchJerk French stereotypes]] including GratuitousFrench, stemming from [[GayParee Paris's]] reputation as an arts haven.